📖 Definitions of "Rapture"
noun
- 1
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- 2
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- 3
The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- 4
Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
verb
- 1
To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- 2
To experience great happiness or excitement.
- 3
To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- 4
To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
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